Antarctic Drilling Recovers Stratigraphic Records From the Continental Margin

The Antarctic Geological Drilling
(ANDRILL)
program — a collaboration
between Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and
the United States that is one of the larger
programs endorsed by the International
Polar Year (IPY; http:// www .ipy .org) — successfully
completed the drilling phase of
the Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) Project
in December 2007. This second drill
core of the program’s campaign in the western
Ross Sea, Antarctica, complements the
results of the first drilling season [Naish
et al., 2007] by penetrating deeper into the
stratigraphic section in the Victoria Land
Basin and extending the recovered time
interval back to approximately 20 million
years ago.

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